Study Guide Parts 1-3 and Vocabulary
Part 1 Questions With Answers
1.
2.
The first Africans to come to the New World came and were
treated as
Indentured servants
Why did Maryland and Virginia have a need for slaves?
They needed a more permanent source of
labor.
3.
What caused slave trade to become a profitable business?
Legalizing slavery
4. What did the growing demand for slaves cause in Africa?
Violent conflict among African tribes
5. Give 2 ways Africans became slaves.
(1) One tribe might capture warriors of another
tribe and then sell them into slavery or (2) Raiding
parties might kidnap Africans from their villages.
6. What is the Triangular Trade?
Shipping routes that connected Europe, Africa,
the West Indies, and North America in the
transatlantic commerce of slaves and
manufactured goods.
7. Where did the Triangular Trade begin and end?
England (Europe)
8. Describe the Middle Passage.
Forced voyage from Africa to the Americas
was a physical and psychological nightmare
that lasted several weeks or months.
9. List the slave produced items.
Tobacco, sugar, cotton, rum, and other slaved
produced items
1. What did English captains of ships do to make the most
money?
Packed as many Africans as possible into the ship
2. How many Africans could “slave” ships carry?
About 400
3. What killed 15-20% of slaves traveling on the ships?
Disease caused by overcrowding spoiled food,
and contaminated water, starvation and thirst
4.What did captains fear most about the Africans?
Mutinies
5. Why couldn’t many ships be used after 5 years?
The stench and disease that was left
behind
Part 3 Questions With Answers
1.
What caused the economies and tribes to suffer in
African while helping to build cities and make people
rich in the colonies and England?
Slave trade
2. What caused cotton to become the valuable crop in the
colonies?
Invention of the Cotton Gin
3. What did farmers in the South have a great need for
after cotton became the valuable crops?
Slave labor
4. How many slaves were living in the “Cotton Belt” of
the southern states by 1800?
Almost 1 million
5. When was a law passed that should have ended the
importing of new slaves in the U.S.?
1808
6. Did the law do what it was put in place to do?
No, not at first
1.
Where did the first leg of the Triangular Trade Route
begin?
Europe (England)
2. What goods were traded for enslaved Africans in West
Africa?
Alcohol, fire arms, and textiles
3. What was the middle passage or middle leg of the
triangular trade route?
Route from West Africa to the Caribbean,
South America or North America
4. The Africans that survived the Middle Passage were
traded for what?
Sugar, rice, tobacco, cotton, and rum
5. Where were those goods taken?
Europe
Arctic Ocean